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andrew-lucker

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About andrew-lucker

Linguistics + PLT = ?

Recent public activity

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    If journals are going to rehash Facebook blah word by word, syllable by syllable, then I expect free endorsements to alternatives. It's a small public service in exchange for the f…

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    Comment #16675190

    privacy regulations = Facebook loses. compliance regulations = Facebook wins.

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    Comment #16664212

    sudo rm -rf /

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    Comment #16642804

    Has anyone else encountered the 25 minute ads? Mine was a full episode of some home-improvement show sponsored by Lowes.

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    Comment #16590292

    I tried putting in verified users and they were all "probably bots". By definition is that not the only type of user publicly acknowledged as "not a bot"?

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    Comment #16559647

    What is the policy on rewriting headlines like this? Was it determined clickbait?

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    Comment #15875649

    Not married to the syntax, just wanted to highlight the absence of this syntax form. The syntax used was mainly meant to mirror the existing Rust pattern syntax. As for partial mat…

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    Comment #15825771

    There is a whole style of programming dedicated to tail-recursion called Continuation Passing Style. It is not usually useful for programmers directly to use, because it is so comp…

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    Comment #15810820

    Post your product anywhere with a comments section. People love to complain and you will get more (negative) feedback than you can handle.

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    Comment #15804729

    There is something disconcerting to me about titles containing the author's name. I don't care if you are famous or not, that format is for tweets, not full articles.

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    Comment #15803842

    op calls himself a purveyor of "truthism". I thought the blog post was pure satire when I read it and still do. Did anybody take this seriously?